Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site x.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!frog!x!wjr From: wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) Newsgroups: net.bizarre Subject: Re: bizarre place names Message-ID: <548@x.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-Aug-85 20:58:03 EDT Article-I.D.: x.548 Posted: Tue Aug 27 20:58:03 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 01:34:42 EDT References: <268@inuxm.UUCP> <8505@watarts.UUCP> <333@baylor.UUCP> <314@tove.UUCP> <358@rti-sel.UUCP> <735@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> Reply-To: wjr@x.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: na Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA Lines: 5 Summary: In article <735@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP> bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron Howes) writes: > >Why, Arizona It's been several years since I've been there but I thought it was spelled Wye, as in a fork in the road, which it is. Also near Wye is a town named Ajo which is a somewhat bizarre name if you speak spanish (it means garlic). In another part of the Arizona is a town named Show Low.